The Study On Gate Decorations Of Shanxi Merchants Residence

Door, the entrance of the architecture, which have a brilliant history in China, includes the material and spiritual content. Ornament, the significant feature of door culture, shows great charm of door. The ornaments of door of the Shanxi Province merchant compound have great artistic quality and research value.Special nature, geography, economic and history give birth to the ornament of door of the Shanxi Province merchant compound. Affected by the spiritual of Confucianism and merchant, the ornament of door have wealth and culture meaning.There are various of categories of the ornament of door, includes the ornaments on the door, subsidiary decoration before the door and decoration about every solar terms. Each categories has kinds of details:door hairpin, couplets, door cymbals, doornail, threshold, flagpole, door pillow, screen wall, goalkeeper, Fu words and kinds of other decorations.There are also kinds of theme of the ornaments of door, many of them have exquisite technique and profound implication. The ornament of door is the miniature of the agriculture and commercial society. It reflects good wish of Shanxi Province merchants', for example, lofty life, good luck and so on.As the development of economic, traditional ornament of door has not suited for modern structure. But,its influence to the creation of spatial order and the cohesion of vision hasn't been weaken,there are still important guide meaning in modern building design.In addition, The contents and implication have changed a lot, some of them have become a kind of sigh, which can be used in other art filed, like media. If modern design can absorb essence of traditional culture, they can complement each other and have a more brilliant future.